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What might happen if a patient takes too much hypertension medication?
Question : What might happen if a patient takes too much hypertension medication?
Out of curiosity, if a patient is taking a blood thinner in order to lower their blood pressure, what might occur if too much was taken? Nothing extreme, but say three or four times the recommended dose?
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Answer by celestialgrl18
They can bleed out
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#2 written by John de Witt 1 year ago
What’s usually called “blood thinners” is a class of drugs known as anticoagulants. That’s entirely different from the drugs used to lower blood pressure.
If the dose of anticoagulants is too high, excessive bleeding is a worry. That can be the minor inconvenience of a nosebleed, a serious bleed in the GI tract requiring transfusion and replacement of clotting factors, or a fatal bleed in the brain.
Accidentally double-dosing antihypertensive medications normally doesn’t cause much difficulty. Perhaps a little orthostasis (getting dizzy when you stand too fast). Doses of three or four times that intended can often lead not only to symptomatic hypotension but can actually precipitate the very problems (stroke or heart attack) that treating hypertension is supposed to prevent. Even larger doses can cause serious shock, and with some classes of antihypertension, it can be very difficult to treat. - Comment Feed for this Post
Well, for the antihypertensive, it depends a lot on which med you’re talking about, there are many different classes of drugs used for hypertension, and they act differently in overdose.
As for anticoagulants (blood thinners) those can be quite dangerous, even in relatively modest overdoses, and, unsurprisingly, they cause bleeding.